IDW Publishing, 'fine purveyors of comic books and supreme overlords of intergalactic radness', have just uploaded all the covers and solicitations for their comics due out in shops and digital distribution this coming July - and it looks like it's a packed one, with the one-shot of Combiner Hunters, the Fan-Built Combiner, Robots in Disguise and a holomatter avatar for Cyclonus! Take a look below at what the Transformers are up to in the various series, spanning past and present day (more or less).

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Animated #1—SPOTLIGHT
Georgia Ball (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a & c)
GO TEAM ’BEE! BUMBLEBEE leads an all-star team of AUTOBOTS to Earth to find rogue DECEPTICONS… but in this all-new story based on the hit Cartoon Network animated series, they find more than… they bargained for! (You thought we were going to say “meets the eye,” didn’t you?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The hit cartoon comes to comics as only IDW and Hasbro can do!
Scan the shield with your mobile device to unlock an EXCLUSIVE character for the TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE APP!
One of Five Featured First issues in July! One every week!
As seen on Free Comic Book Day!

Bullet points:
Two fan-favorite characters together for the first time!
Who will command the SpaceBridge?
Variant Cover by James Biggie!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #43
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)
Three years into their quest, and the crew of the Lost Light were starting to think that the universe held no more nasty surprises. And then a planet started chasing them.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Combiner Hunters Special one-shot
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
COMBINER WARS FALLOUT! Because you demanded it—WINDBLADE and CHROMIA team up with ARCEE to put an end to the menace of the COMBINER WARS—but will they end each other first?!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
For the first time—a one shot adventure featuring three fan-favorite female TRANSFORMERS!
Revealed within—Hasbro’s FAN-BUILT COMBINER, as voted on by TRANSFORMERS fans around the world!
Variant Cover by James Biggie!

To be fair, It has been noted for awhile that Cyclonus's avatar would be a woman, and I think maybe it was said somewhere it might be like a schoolmarm or something not sure on that. I myself wasn't expecting this; though I will say she almost looks like a character design that should be on Gankutsuou, which is something I like.

To be fair, It has been noted for awhile that Cyclonus's avatar would be a woman, and I think maybe it was said somewhere it might be like a schoolmarm or something not sure on that. I myself wasn't expecting this; though I will say she almost looks like a character design that should be on Gankutsuou, which is something I like.

She's also looking a bit garish and overdressed, like a Hunger Games noble.

To be fair, It has been noted for awhile that Cyclonus's avatar would be a woman, and I think maybe it was said somewhere it might be like a schoolmarm or something not sure on that. I myself wasn't expecting this; though I will say she almost looks like a character design that should be on Gankutsuou, which is something I like.

I predict fanart of Cyclonus rapping people on the knuckles with a ruler.

To be fair, It has been noted for awhile that Cyclonus's avatar would be a woman, and I think maybe it was said somewhere it might be like a schoolmarm or something not sure on that. I myself wasn't expecting this; though I will say she almost looks like a character design that should be on Gankutsuou, which is something I like.

She's also looking a bit garish and overdressed, like a Hunger Games noble.

I find her bordering more on the Victorian gothic side of things than hunger games, mostly due to the muted color pallet compared to a say pastel. Also I doubt what she's holding is a ruler, neither sword, nor rapier. I'd suggest it's a parasol but it's more than a bit tall.

To be fair, It has been noted for awhile that Cyclonus's avatar would be a woman, and I think maybe it was said somewhere it might be like a schoolmarm or something not sure on that. I myself wasn't expecting this; though I will say she almost looks like a character design that should be on Gankutsuou, which is something I like.

She's also looking a bit garish and overdressed, like a Hunger Games noble.

I find her bordering more on the Victorian gothic side of things than hunger games, mostly due to the muted color pallet compared to a say pastel. Also I doubt what she's holding is a ruler, neither sword, nor rapier. I'd suggest it's a parasol but it's more than a bit tall.

I'm going to try to go in order here:
1. Cosmos v. Soundwave! Finally a Spotlight: Cosmos so to speak!
2. Cyclonus's holomater avatar looks amazing. Incredible detail. And I can see her educating the Baby Tailgate avatar in school
3. Windlblade: Finally Blurr gets to go to a planet where racing is life (literally) and we get to see Velocitron! This I cannot wait to get to!
4. Combiner Hunters: They probably have the 3 females together since 6 more will be formally shown together as a combiner unit

Va'al wrote:Also, Arcee, Windblade and Chromia all seem to have new bodies in Combiner Hunters.

I believe they have the same bodies, just new "hunter" colors and Arcee has a new frikkin large sword of murder/death/justice.
July will be a very busy month indeed

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